Transport Fever 3 Calculator

A free calculator for Transport Fever 3 lines: estimate the income of a delivery before you build, size your fleet for the headway you promised, and compare every official map size in kilometers. The income model can be calibrated against a payment you observed in your own game, so the numbers stay honest even while the exact Transport Fever 3 formula remains unpublished.

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Transport Fever 3 Calculator

Line income, fleet size and map area — three calculators, zero guesswork. Numbers you can check against the game yourself.

Line Income Estimator

Reference model: the verified Transport Fever 2 payment formula. In Transport Fever 3, community testing finds unit price no longer depends on vehicle speed or type — calibrate below against a payment you observed in-game.

Distance between stations (km, straight line) Cargo units or passengers per vehicle Vehicles on the line Transported Difficulty Mode (TF2 model) Top speed of the slowest vehicle (km/h)

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per unit, per delivery

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per vehicle, per delivery

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per full line, per delivery

TF2 reference model

Calibrate to Transport Fever 3

Run one delivery in-game, open the finance panel and type what ONE unit earned for that distance. The model re-anchors to the real game.

Observed payment for one unit

Fleet Size & Headway

Pure arithmetic: how many vehicles keep the timetable, and how much the line moves per hour.

Round-trip time (minutes) Target headway (minutes between departures) Capacity per vehicle (units)

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vehicles needed

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units per hour

Map Area Comparison

Official dimensions from the Transport Fever 3 wiki. Experimental sizes need experimentalMapFeatures in settings.lua and 16 GB RAM.

Map size Aspect ratio

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Area: —
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Methodology & sources

The reference formula (300 + distance) × basePrice × cargoFactor × 125 / millisPerDay × difficulty was published by a developer for Transport Fever 2 and verified by the community to within 0.2% of in-game payments. Transport Fever 3 launch-week community testing reports unit price is independent of vehicle type and top speed, and that revenue is still based on straight-line origin-destination distance, split proportionally between carriers on multi-leg routes. This page will be recalibrated whenever the game's economics change — each figure here is either sourced or measured, never invented.

Model last reviewed 2026-10-03 (game build: launch week).

FAQ

Is this Transport Fever 3 calculator free?

Yes — the line income estimator, fleet size calculator and map area comparison are free and run entirely in your browser. No account, no download.

How accurate is the income estimate?

The reference model reproduces Transport Fever 2 payments to within 0.2% of community-verified deliveries. Transport Fever 3 has not published its formula yet, so for exact TF3 figures use the calibration field: enter what one unit earned on a delivery you ran in-game and every output re-anchors to the real economy.

Does vehicle speed still affect payment in Transport Fever 3?

In Transport Fever 2, faster vehicles earned more per unit. Launch-week community testing of Transport Fever 3 reports that vehicle type and top speed no longer change unit price — revenue depends on straight-line origin-destination distance and is split proportionally between carriers on multi-leg routes.

How many vehicles does my line need?

Divide the round-trip time by the headway you want and round up. The fleet calculator does this for you: a 24-minute round trip with a 6-minute target headway needs 4 vehicles.